"I do want to qualify that by saying that a number of variables are associated with that modelling."
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The five deaths recorded in the 24 hours to 8pm include a man in his 90s who was a resident of St George Aged Care Facility in Bexley and acquired his infection there.
A woman in her 80s from northern Sydney died at Ryde Hospital, while two women died at Westmead Hospital, one in her 50s and the other in her 80s.
A man in his 60s from the Southern Highlands died at home.
NSW Health says there are now 1,071 people admitted to hospital, with 177 in intensive care, 67 of whom require ventilation.
Ms Berejiklian said the system can cope.
"At any given time in our hospital system, they would be around 400 people with non-COVID related issues in ICU and our surge capacity, including staff, in our intensive care units is 1,550," Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Monday.
"We certainly don't want to have to use of all those beds and staff, because we know what pressure it will put on the system, but we want everybody to be reassured that the capacity is there."
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The new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday came from over 136,400 tests.
Of them, 831 were in Sydney's west and south west, 44 in the Western Local Health District and seven in the Far Western Local Health District, which includes the small town of Wilcannia.
In the past 24 hours, 31,903 people came forward for a vaccination, taking the state's total to 7,543,522.
More than 40 per cent of the NSW population aged over 16 is double vaccinated.
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